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Haris Vlavianos
Haris Vlavianos ( gr, Χάρης Βλαβιανός; born 1957), is a contemporary Greek poet. Biography Haris Vlavianos studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol. He also studied Politics and History at Trinity College in Oxford. His doctoral thesis, entitled "Greece 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War", was published by Macmillan in 1992. He is professor of History at the American College of Greece. He has published ten collections of poetry, the most recent of them being ''Sonnets of Despair'', in 2011. He has also published a collection of thoughts and aphorisms on poetry and poetics entitled, '' The Other Place'' (1994) and a book of essays entitled, ''Does Poetry Matter?: Thoughts on the Uselessness of an Art'' (2007), as well a book with haiku, entitled, ''The History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haikus: From the Presocratics to Derrida''. He has translated into Greek, the works of well-known writers such as: Walt Whitman (''Selected Poems'', 1986), E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (; el, Έλληνες, ''Éllines'' ) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, namely Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and, to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. They also form a significant diaspora (), with Greek communities established around the world.. Greek colonies and communities have been historically established on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, but the Greek people themselves have always been centered on the Aegean and Ionian seas, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age.. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, the Black Sea coast, Cappadocia in central Anatolia, Egypt, the Balkans, Cyprus, and Constantinople. Many of these regions coincided to a large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
